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Brecher: Letter to Bernie Sanders
Commentary, May, 17 1999
Jeremy Brecher
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Dear Bernie -- This letter explains the matters of conscience that have led me to resign from your staff.
Lusane: Jackson and the Contradictions of War
Commentary, May, 13 1999
Clarence Lusane
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Into the storm's eye of the Balkin war stepped Rev. Jesse Jackson, and, once again, he emerges with prisoners of war.
Raptis: The Greeks, Kosovo, Etc.
Commentary, May, 12 1999
Nikos Raptis
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As already mentioned, during the night of April 27 to April 28, '99, Greek demonstrators forced a train carrying British troops and tanks to Macedonia to return to the terminus of the port of Salonica and not leave for Macedonia.
Author: Atlantic Alliance
Commentary, May, 11 1999
Guest Author
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How much longer do we have to endure the folly of Nato's war in the Balkans? In just 50 days, the Atlantic alliance has failed in everything it set out to do. It has failed to protect the Kosovo Albanians from Serbian war crimes.
Schechter: Covering Wars at Home and Abroad
Commentary, May, 11 1999
Danny Schechter
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Had the Marine Corps recruiter not gotten hung up on the fact that Columbine H.S. student Eric Harris lied about taking an anti-depressant, he may very well have been on his way by now to the front lines of Kosovo, the real war he reportedly prefe...
Chomsky: Moral Principles and International Law
Commentary, May, 09 1999
Noam Chomsky
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I'm afraid the first question is not a "genuine question," though there is a huge literature, for thousands of years, attempting to say at least something about these topics, without much success.
Herman: Hitchens Degraded
Commentary, May, 08 1999
Edward Herman
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It would be hard to imagine better evidence of the sorry state of supposedly left opinion in this country than Christopher Hitchens' "Belgrade Degraded" in the May 17 issue of The Nation.
Weisbrot: Give Peace A Chance
Commentary, May, 05 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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How long can NATO continue bombing Yugoslavia? The Clinton administration's answer so far has been, "as long as it takes" for Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to capitulate to its demands.
Mokhiber: Drugs, Patents, and U.S. Policy
Commentary, May, 03 1999
Russell Mokhiber
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Thanks to new drug therapies, many people with HIV/AIDS in the United States are now able to live relatively healthy lives. "Triple drug" therapies, or "drug cocktails" allow HIV-positive people to reduce their HIV blood load in some cases to unde...
Raptis: The Greeks, Kosovo, and the U.S.
Commentary, May, 02 1999
Nikos Raptis
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Following the Chomskyan distinction, in the present text the word Greeks refers to the inhabitants of the geographic region of Greece as distinct from the political and economic elits that "govern" the country. (The use of the quotation marks is e...
Herman: The Godfather's New World Order
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
Edward Herman
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The Godfather's New World Order
Albert: The Kosovo/NATO Conflict
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
Michael Albert
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The Kosovo/NATO Conflict
Chomsky: Crisis in the Balkans
Zmag Article, May, 01 1999
Noam Chomsky
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Crisis in the Balkans
Herman: The U.S. Versus the Rules of War
Commentary, April, 25 1999
Edward Herman
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It is clear that the U.S./NATO military strategy in Yugoslavia is to use capital intensive warfare to ravage Serbian military forces and civil society until either the Serbs surrender or are so completely crushed that there is a "permissive enviro...
Peters: Responding To Sentiment
Commentary, April, 21 1999
Cynthia Peters
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There was a lengthy debate at my dinner table the other night about the situation in Yugoslavia. Most of my relatives defended the NATO bombings as the only moral action to take in the face of crimes being committed against ethnic Albanians. I arg...
Burchill: Kosovo and East Timor
Commentary, April, 20 1999
Scott Burchill
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The arrest of Care Australia's Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace by Serb authorities exposes more than the risks faced by aid workers in a war which masquerades as "humanitarian relief". It also reveals the perils faced by good people as a result of t...
Author: We Who Are About To Die
Commentary, April, 16 1999
Guest Author
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Two and a half years ago, I wrote the first of these columns for this paper, an attack on the pessimistic idea that the best we could hope for was Tony Blair. As a result, the following morning I was contacted by Robin Cook, who asked me to write ...
Solomon: American Journalist Have No Reason to be Smug
Commentary, April, 13 1999
Norman Solomon
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Ever since the start of NATO 's bombing blitz more than two weeks ago, the regime in Belgrade has maintained total control of Serbia's press -- and American journalists have scornfully reported on the propaganda role of Yugoslavian news media. But...
Dominick: Behind Enemy Lines
Commentary, April, 11 1999
Brian Dominick
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In a disturbing case of hypocritical Western propaganda tripping over its own distortions, the Associated Press recently reported that Turkish troops and warplanes have crossed into Northeastern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels presumably taking ...
Peters: Is There A Truth About Rigoberto Menchu
Commentary, April, 10 1999
Cynthia Peters
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My friend the anthropologist says there is no such thing as truth. She says that sheÕs interviewed people in the field who completely contradict each other. One says the volcano erupted and the other says it didnÕt. They both say it with equal con...
